Pre-arrest bail for girl who tells boy to ‘go and die’

Mumbai | Sunday | 29th January, 2017

Summary:

The HC, while granting anticipatory bail, told Seema to cooperate with police investigations and restrained her from tampering with evidence. Mumbai: Bombay high court granted pre-arrest bail to a girl, booked for abetment, after the boy whose offer of marriage she had spurned committed suicide in front of her house. Hence, anticipatory bail application is granted," said the judge.Suraj Chotha, a resident of Satara , committed suicide on November 1, 2016, by consuming pesticides. The prosecution had claimed that she had told the boy to "go and die". Seema's lawyers contended that she had not committed any crime, and much less the offence of abetment of suicide..